See? Terry Gilliam wasn't really exaggerating for comedic effect. Of course, these guys actually know a lot about history between all of them combined, so it doesn't surprise me that they would be weirdly accurate.

It was the 80s. I was in high school. Short-haired girls were hot. I was, and may still be, infatuated with Nastassja Kinski in "Cat People". It also had Bowie's "Putting out fire..." in it.

It is not an irrational fear.

Oh, mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy...

man, this takes me back. yep, caught Epigonus of Ambracia back at the Parth' in, what, 79? that's bce of course, before they blew up in '76. Lamprus of Erythrae opened, totally bitchin I gotta say. Lots of fine plebian females at that show. Managed to work on the road with Antigenidas, before he sold out and all.…

Here's a refined version of it in 2003.

This Citroen has such a 2001: A Space Odyssey vibe to it.

Seriously, though. Can we take a second to delight in the fact that filmmakers are using technology that actively encourages actors to get down on all fours and unabashedly just go to fucking town at PRETENDING TO BE A DRAGON, in more or less the exact same way you'd expect a child to do while, say, playing with her…

Sounds Familiar to the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons.

I am glad James Gunn is still writing novels! He is also active in the science fiction scholarship community, and is an amazing resource on the history of the genre.

I love that he got down on hands and knees so that he could really go into full dragon mode.

Well as the costs go down it might come into the hands of small filmmakers.

Abrams is big on practical over CG when possible, so I think he's a better driver than any printers.

Truly great use of shutterstock.

Why wasn't this included?